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... and took the time for a walk around while there. Arriving at Mont Saint Michel is interesting. For some reason, I thought there was a village on the shore opposite the island. There isn't what is there is a giant car park, some hotels, an information centre and shuttle buses to take people to the island which is about 3kms away. We can see it from the car park and it is an incredible sight. Google some images to get the idea: it's a huge ...

... tour of an oyster farm, including a tasting and even a bit of off road riding so it was a bit of fun. Rob was on fire today, up the front of the pack after the oyster tasting. One large hill sorted him out but he recovered quickly. We arrived at our hotel at 3:30. And what a hotel. It is a three storey chateau with additional buildings that now house the hotel and ...

... been an important pilgrimage center since 708 A.D. when the bishop of Avranches heard the voice of the Archangel Michael saying basically "If you build it ...they will come." Much of the 1200 years of history was lost during World War II when its archives were taken to St-Lo for safe keeping, only to be destroyed in the D-Day fighting. This is also a UNESCO world heritage site. We had lunch together, said our goodbyes to Celine's parents and Valentin, and ...

This morning we decided to surprise Kate and Roy by taking them an amusment park called L'Angel Michel Parc which is located not too far from Mont St Michel. We initally told them we were going to visit a monestry where they brew their own beer, so they were quite excited about that.

On our drive we needed to get fuel. We are not sue if we have mentioned this before but getting fuel is not quite as simple as it is back in ...

... is to get out , walk to the other end of the bus and then drive off in that direction. Not a bad idea really and Traci could even manage this!

Upon arriving at the island we walked through the medieval walls and began exploring this remarkable location taking winding and narrow paths that make up the streets in the village which is filled with shops, restaurants and private homes. Roy sent us off on a geocache hunt ...